Railway tie and tie plate



July 14, 1925. 1,545,857

J. P. SMITH RAILWAY TIE AND TIE PLATE Filed Aug. 15, 1924 Gttoz may;

Patented .luly 14, 1925.-

4 y 1,545,857 PATENT! OFFICE.

JAMES ,1. SMITH, or mnmnnocx, VIRGINIA, AssIenoR OEONE-HALF TO FRANK z.

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RAILWAY IE'AN TIE PLATE.

Application filed August 15, 1924. Serial No'. 732,233.

and Tie Plates,of which the following is a specification. y

The object of this invention is to provide 1 a metallic railway tie of cheap and'simple construction with a reversible tie plate for compensating for the wear on one side of the rail.

With other objects in view, as will be more fully set forth as the following description proceeds, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification and wherein'like numerals of reference are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the complete invention,

Fig. 2 is a View in side elevation thereof,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged top plan view in detail of a fragment of Fig. 1,

Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectional View of the portion illustrated in Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on line 5-5 of'Fig. 2.

In the drawing, reference numeral 1 designates a tubular metallic railway tie, the same being formed into a tube by drawing, rolling or otherwise, and with or without a seam, and such seam, if present, be ing welded or not. For the purpose of drainage and ventilation, the tubular tie may be, and preferably is, provided with perforations 2 in its side or other wall or walls. WVithin each end of the tubular tie is located a wooden or composition spiking block 3, and each of these blocks extends preferably only from the outer end of the tie to a point well beyond the plane of the rail 4, and to facilitate removal of these blocks from within the tubular tie, the ends of the tie are notched as at 5 so as to expose the outer ends of the spiking blocks so that they may be grasped by pulling tongs or the like and thereby extracted from the tie.

The upper wall of the tie is cut out to provide a pocket 6 to receive a reversible tie plate 7. Both are given the same contour,

and in the drawing, this is shown to be rectangular. On each side of the pocket, the upper wall of the tie is again out way as at 8, thereby exposing the spiking'block 3 and an edge 9 of each side wall of the metallic tie. The pocketv 8 is slightly wider than the width of the rail base so that the rail 4 never comes intocontact with the top wall of the tie, unless wear of the spiking block 3 by thetie plate 7 becomes excessive.

By reference to Fig. 3,'it will'be observed j that the distance from the shoulder 10 of the rail seat of the tie'plate 7 tothe left hand edge of the tie plate is shorter than the distance from the other shoulder 11 to the right hand end ofthe tie plate. In new installations, the tie plates are set with these shorter portions orends 12 toward the outer ends of the tie 1, and with the longer ends 14 between the positions occupied by the rails. The rails 4 are then placed in the seats of the tie plates 7 and the spikes 15 driven through apertures 16 in the tie plates and into the spiking blocks 3, the heads of the spikes engaging and securing the rails 4 in the usual manner.

By reference to Fig. 3, it will be observed that the spiking holes 16 at one end coincide with those at the other end, so that when a rail becomes worn on one side as to increase the gauge of the rails to a dangerous degree, and this is compensated for by reversing the tie plates, the spikes will enter the same spike holes previously formed in the spiking blocks 3. When the tie plates are reversed, the longer ends 14 of the tie plates will occupy the positions previously occupied by the shorter ends 12, so that the long end 14 is moved from the worn side of the rail to the unworn side, thereby moving the worn side 'of the rail toward the center of the tie and in that way compensating for the wear and restoring the rails to proper gauge. The new positions then occupied by the shoulders 10 and 11 are illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, and the center of the rail moves from the first position indicated by line 16 to thesecond position indicated by line 17.- In Fig. 4, it will be observed that the tie plate ends are of a greater thickness than the top wall of the tie so that in case of excessive wear on the spiking block, the tie plates, because of the thickness of their ends, will not slip between the spiking block and the under face of the top tie wall, but the ends of these tie plates will at all times abut and engage with the walls ofthe pockets 6.

Of course it is to be understood that other forms of tieplates-maybe substituted for the type herein illustrated, or the adopted therein, a tie" plate resting-on--said block and] being reversible to change-the position of t-he rail;

ing; formed with apocketfiv to receive the tie 2. A tubular railway tie,aIspiking; block. therein, a tie plate resting on saidiblockandrbeing; reversible to changethe positionof the rail, and spikespassing through said-tie plates'and into the spiking bloc/k the tie be plate inaboth ofiits positions.

3.-1A tubular railway tie, a splkingblbck therein, a. tie :plateresting;on'isaidwblock and being reversible to change-the position of? the rail, and; rail securing; spikes passing through. said tie. plates and; into; the same;

holes in the spiking blocks for both positions of the tie plates.

LIA tubular metallic railway tie, a spiking block therein, a tie plate resting on said block and being reversible to change the position of the rail, rail securing spikes pass ing through said tie plates and into the same holes in the spiking blocks for both positions otthe tie plate, said tie plate being snuglyv received: in-rboth of its positions in an opening formed the tie.

in the upperwall of 5. A: device of the. nature described" in I claim 5, further characterized by the; tieplate being; of-a greater thickness than the" upper wall of. the tie to avoid its entering;

vbetween said upper; tie wall-and-the spiking block when "the latterbecomeszworn. r

6-. A tie plate provided with arailf'sea' having shoulders on: each' sideof said seat to, engage the sides ofthe rail base, the-dis tance from oneof said: shoulders to the; ad jacent endl-of the-tie, plate beingz less-than that between the other shoulder and ad+ 'jacentr'endrof the tie plate,.and spikingropenings at bothends of the tie plate equidis- In testimony whereof I? affix: signature:

JAMESB. SMITH: 

